Free Speculative Fiction Online: New Additions

New Additions

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Added on April 6, 2025:
Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: Those Who Seek To Embrace The Sun (Lightspeed, March 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Charlie Jane Anders: The Prodigal Mother (excerpt from Lessons in Magic and Disaster) (Uncanny Magazine #63, March 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Adam-Troy Castro: Message In a Babel (Lightspeed, March 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Sarah Day & Tim Pratt: Overclocked Holmes (Overclocked Holmes Anthology)
Available as part of this magazine.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on April 6, 2025:
Thomas Ha: In My Country (Clarkesworld #223, April 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Rhiannon Held: Bloodtech (Redstone SF, January 2011)
Isfdb:
As by ‘R. Z. Held’.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on April 6, 2025:
Rhiannon Held: Red Dreams (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #245, February 2018)
Reviews: Isfdb:
As by ‘R. Z. Held’.

Added on April 6, 2025:
Rhiannon Held: It Never Was (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #350, February 2022)
Reviews: Isfdb:
As by ‘R. Z. Held’.

Added on April 6, 2025:
Rhiannon Held: Swimming Apart (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #291, November 2019)
Reviews: Isfdb:
As by ‘R. Z. Held’.

Added on April 6, 2025:
Rhiannon Held: Ice in our Veins (Redstone SF, January 2012)
Reviews: Isfdb:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on April 6, 2025:
Rhiannon Held: Truth as a Prize (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #299, March 2020)
Reviews: Isfdb:
As by ‘R. Z. Held’.

Added on April 6, 2025:
Rhiannon Held: To Sacrifice Others (GigaNotoSaurus, October 2024)
Isfdb:
As by ‘R. Z. Held’.

Added on April 6, 2025:
Rhiannon Held: A Tally of What Remains (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #313, September 2020)
Reviews: Isfdb:
As by ‘R. Z. Held’.

Added on April 6, 2025:
Rhiannon Held: Twice-Marked, Wild Against City (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #401, February 2024)
Isfdb:
As by ‘R. Z. Held’.

Added on April 6, 2025:
Rhiannon Held: Bind the Herbs to Bring the Shift (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #427, March 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Nina Kiriki Hoffman: The Shift (Lightspeed, March 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Jennifer Hudak: The Witch Trap (LCRW, September 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2024.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on April 6, 2025:
Jennifer Hudak: The Last Time Gladys Howled At the Moon (Strange Horizons, March 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Rachael K. Jones: Instructions for Good Boys on the Interplanetary Expedition (Lightspeed, March 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Jake Kerr: Pure of Heart (Lightspeed, March 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Rich Larson: An Even Greater Cold to Come (Clarkesworld #223, April 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Marissa Lingen: Disconnections (Nature Futures, March 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Samantha Mills: 10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days (Uncanny Magazine #63, March 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Premee Mohamed: By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars (Strange Horizons, June 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2025.

Added on April 6, 2025:
Samantha Murray: Through These Moments, Darkly (Clarkesworld #223, April 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Russell Nichols: Some Assembly Required (Nature Futures, March 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Jonathan Olfert: Lifeline (Lightspeed, January 2013)
Reviews: Isfdb:

Added on April 6, 2025:
Jonathan Olfert: Redfin Spine (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #346, January 2022)
Reviews: Isfdb:

Added on April 6, 2025:
Jonathan Olfert: A Forcible Calm (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #375, February 2023)
Isfdb:

Added on April 6, 2025:
Jonathan Olfert: On Slate and Skin (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #403, March 2024)
Isfdb:

Added on April 6, 2025:
Jonathan Olfert: One Ear Left Over (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #413, August 2024)
Isfdb:

Added on April 6, 2025:
Jonathan Olfert: Here-and-Now-and-Then (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #428, March 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Anya Ow: Umami (Fantasy Magazine, December 2020)
Review: Isfdb:

Added on April 6, 2025:
Anya Ow: Big Mother (Strange Horizons, January 2018)
Isfdb:

Added on April 6, 2025:
Anya Ow: God of the River (Fantasy Magazine, May 2023)
Isfdb:

Added on April 6, 2025:
Anya Ow: The Mourning Hour (GigaNotoSaurus, October 2016)
Isfdb:

Added on April 6, 2025:
Anya Ow: Earth Dragon, Turning (Uncanny Magazine #49, November 2022)
Isfdb:

Added on April 6, 2025:
Anya Ow: Memories of Temperance (Lightspeed, March 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Anya Ow: Everything Under Heaven (Uncanny Magazine #24, July 2018)
Isfdb:

Added on April 6, 2025:
Anya Ow: Fanspell: Flowers in Spring (RobYung, NSFW) (Lightspeed, September 2021)
Reviews: Isfdb:

Added on April 6, 2025:
Kelly Robson: Landline (Reactor, March 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Holly Schofield: The Robot Whisperer (Fighting for the Future Anthology, 2023)
Isfdb:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on April 6, 2025:
Rachel Swirsky: After the Invasion of the Bug-Eyed Aliens (Reactor, March 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Molly Tanzer: The City of Tears (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #429, April 2025)

Added on April 6, 2025:
Eugenia Triantafyllou: The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends (Uncanny Magazine #63, March 2025)

Added on March 16, 2025:
Kerstin Hall: Bombyx Mori (Strange Horizons, January 2017)
Isfdb:

Added on March 16, 2025:
Kerstin Hall: A Machine, Unhaunted (Fireside Magazine, September 2020)
Isfdb:

Added on March 16, 2025:
Kerstin Hall: A Heart Between Teeth (Tor.com, November 2023)
Isfdb:

Added on March 16, 2025:
Christine Hanolsy: Afterimage (Flash Fiction Online, February 2024)

Added on March 16, 2025:
Christine Hanolsy: Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #405, April 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2024.
Isfdb:

Added on March 16, 2025:
Jennifer Hudak: Getaway (Podcastle, July 2019)
Isfdb:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on March 16, 2025:
Jennifer Hudak: Mirrored (Flash Fiction Online, May 2020)
Review: Isfdb:

Added on March 16, 2025:
Jennifer Hudak: A Promise (Apparition Literary Magazine, January 2018)
Isfdb:

Added on March 16, 2025:
Jennifer Hudak: Beverly’s Sonata (Not One of Us #75, January 2023)
Isfdb:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on March 16, 2025:
Jennifer Hudak: Sturgeon Moon Jam (Fantasy Magazine, December 2022)
Alternate link.
Isfdb:

Added on March 16, 2025:
Jennifer Hudak: Little Fish, Big Fish (Flash Fiction Online, August 2023)
Isfdb:

Added on March 16, 2025:
Jennifer Hudak: The Cat Lady and the Petitioner (Translunar Travelers Lounge, August 2020)
Alternate link.
Isfdb:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on March 16, 2025:
Jennifer Hudak: The Wizard’s Book Tastes of Flight (Flash Fiction Online, July 2021)
Review: Isfdb:

Added on March 16, 2025:
Aimee Ogden: What Any Dead Thing Wants (Psychopomp, February 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2024.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on March 16, 2025:
A. W. Prihandita: Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being (Clarkesworld, November 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2024.

Added on March 16, 2025:
Eugenia Triantafyllou: Joanna’s Bodies (Psychopomp, January 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2024.
Isfdb:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Free Speculative Fiction Online

New Additions

Updates and news via Mastodon.

Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: Those Who Seek To Embrace The Sun (Lightspeed, March 2025)

Charlie Jane Anders: The Prodigal Mother (excerpt from Lessons in Magic and Disaster) (Uncanny Magazine #63, March 2025)

Adam-Troy Castro: Message In a Babel (Lightspeed, March 2025)

Sarah Day & Tim Pratt: Overclocked Holmes (Overclocked Holmes Anthology)

Thomas Ha: In My Country (Clarkesworld #223, April 2025)

Rhiannon Held: Bloodtech (Redstone SF, January 2011)

Rhiannon Held: Red Dreams (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #245, February 2018)

Rhiannon Held: It Never Was (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #350, February 2022)

Rhiannon Held: Swimming Apart (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #291, November 2019)

Rhiannon Held: Ice in our Veins (Redstone SF, January 2012)

Rhiannon Held: Truth as a Prize (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #299, March 2020)

Rhiannon Held: To Sacrifice Others (GigaNotoSaurus, October 2024)

Rhiannon Held: A Tally of What Remains (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #313, September 2020)

Rhiannon Held: Twice-Marked, Wild Against City (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #401, February 2024)

Rhiannon Held: Bind the Herbs to Bring the Shift (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #427, March 2025)

Nina Kiriki Hoffman: The Shift (Lightspeed, March 2025)

Jennifer Hudak: The Witch Trap (LCRW, September 2024)

Jennifer Hudak: The Last Time Gladys Howled At the Moon (Strange Horizons, March 2025)

Rachael K. Jones: Instructions for Good Boys on the Interplanetary Expedition (Lightspeed, March 2025)

Jake Kerr: Pure of Heart (Lightspeed, March 2025)

Rich Larson: An Even Greater Cold to Come (Clarkesworld #223, April 2025)

Marissa Lingen: Disconnections (Nature Futures, March 2025)

Samantha Mills: 10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days (Uncanny Magazine #63, March 2025)

Premee Mohamed: By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars (Strange Horizons, June 2024)

Samantha Murray: Through These Moments, Darkly (Clarkesworld #223, April 2025)

Russell Nichols: Some Assembly Required (Nature Futures, March 2025)

Jonathan Olfert: Lifeline (Lightspeed, January 2013)

Jonathan Olfert: Redfin Spine (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #346, January 2022)

Jonathan Olfert: A Forcible Calm (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #375, February 2023)

Jonathan Olfert: On Slate and Skin (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #403, March 2024)

Jonathan Olfert: One Ear Left Over (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #413, August 2024)

Jonathan Olfert: Here-and-Now-and-Then (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #428, March 2025)

Anya Ow: Umami (Fantasy Magazine, December 2020)

Anya Ow: Big Mother (Strange Horizons, January 2018)

Anya Ow: God of the River (Fantasy Magazine, May 2023)

Anya Ow: The Mourning Hour (GigaNotoSaurus, October 2016)

Anya Ow: Earth Dragon, Turning (Uncanny Magazine #49, November 2022)

Anya Ow: Memories of Temperance (Lightspeed, March 2025)

Anya Ow: Everything Under Heaven (Uncanny Magazine #24, July 2018)

Anya Ow: Fanspell: Flowers in Spring (RobYung, NSFW) (Lightspeed, September 2021)

Kelly Robson: Landline (Reactor, March 2025)

Holly Schofield: The Robot Whisperer (Fighting for the Future Anthology, 2023)

Rachel Swirsky: After the Invasion of the Bug-Eyed Aliens (Reactor, March 2025)

Molly Tanzer: The City of Tears (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #429, April 2025)

Eugenia Triantafyllou: The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends (Uncanny Magazine #63, March 2025)

Kerstin Hall: Bombyx Mori (Strange Horizons, January 2017)

Kerstin Hall: A Machine, Unhaunted (Fireside Magazine, September 2020)

Kerstin Hall: A Heart Between Teeth (Tor.com, November 2023)

Christine Hanolsy: Afterimage (Flash Fiction Online, February 2024)

Christine Hanolsy: Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #405, April 2024)

Jennifer Hudak: Getaway (Podcastle, July 2019)

Jennifer Hudak: Mirrored (Flash Fiction Online, May 2020)

Jennifer Hudak: A Promise (Apparition Literary Magazine, January 2018)

Jennifer Hudak: Beverly’s Sonata (Not One of Us #75, January 2023)

Jennifer Hudak: Sturgeon Moon Jam (Fantasy Magazine, December 2022)

Jennifer Hudak: Little Fish, Big Fish (Flash Fiction Online, August 2023)

Jennifer Hudak: The Cat Lady and the Petitioner (Translunar Travelers Lounge, August 2020)

Jennifer Hudak: The Wizard’s Book Tastes of Flight (Flash Fiction Online, July 2021)

Aimee Ogden: What Any Dead Thing Wants (Psychopomp, February 2024)

A. W. Prihandita: Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being (Clarkesworld, November 2024)

Eugenia Triantafyllou: Joanna’s Bodies (Psychopomp, January 2024)